﻿EXTENSION 
  OF 
  THE 
  RECORDED 
  RANGE 
  OF 
  CERTAIN 
  FISHES. 
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  13911) 
  aud 
  later 
  at 
  Bncksport, 
  ou 
  the 
  Penobscot 
  Eiver 
  (No. 
  22273); 
  

   and 
  it 
  is 
  reported 
  that 
  in 
  1880 
  a 
  specimen 
  was 
  taken 
  in 
  Passama- 
  

   quoddy 
  Bay.* 
  

  

  Pseudopleuronectes 
  americanus 
  ( 
  Walbaum), 
  Winter 
  Flounder; 
  

   Mud 
  Dab; 
  Common 
  Flatjish. 
  

  

  The 
  recorded 
  range 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  Labrador 
  to 
  Chesapeake 
  Bay.t 
  

   It 
  is 
  very 
  abundant 
  on 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  southern 
  Massachusetts 
  and 
  the 
  

   Middle 
  States, 
  but 
  not 
  common 
  in 
  the 
  Chesapeake. 
  Dr. 
  Goode 
  states 
  

   that 
  ''Small 
  quantities 
  are 
  brought 
  to 
  Washington 
  in 
  winter 
  from 
  the 
  

   mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Chesapeake." 
  

  

  The 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  has 
  recently 
  received 
  from 
  Messrs. 
  J. 
  F. 
  Miller 
  

   & 
  Son, 
  of 
  Asheville, 
  X. 
  C, 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  winter 
  ilounder 
  about 
  a 
  foot 
  

   in 
  length, 
  which 
  was 
  shipped 
  to 
  them 
  in 
  February 
  from 
  I^ewbern, 
  N. 
  C, 
  

   among 
  a 
  lot 
  of 
  other 
  food 
  -fishes 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  vi(!iuity 
  of 
  that 
  place. 
  

   Newbern 
  is 
  on 
  the 
  Neuse 
  Eiver, 
  about 
  30 
  miles 
  above 
  its 
  entrance 
  into 
  

   Pamlico 
  Sound. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  has 
  previously 
  been 
  reported 
  from 
  Beaufort, 
  iST. 
  C, 
  by 
  

   Dr. 
  H. 
  C. 
  Yarrow.l 
  Mr. 
  Barton 
  A. 
  Bean, 
  assistant 
  curator 
  of 
  fishes 
  

   in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum, 
  states 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  

   museum 
  collection 
  a 
  specimen 
  (No. 
  5271) 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  from 
  Savannah, 
  

   Ga., 
  collected 
  by 
  Prof. 
  L. 
  Agassiz. 
  

  

  Diodon 
  hystrix 
  Linnaeus. 
  Porcupine-Jish. 
  

  

  This 
  inhabitant 
  of 
  the 
  troi)ical 
  seas 
  has 
  not 
  heretofore 
  been 
  recorded 
  

   north 
  of 
  Florida 
  on 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  coast. 
  On 
  August 
  12, 
  1895, 
  Mr. 
  V. 
  N. 
  

   Edwards, 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  station 
  at 
  Woods 
  

   Hole, 
  Mass., 
  took 
  a 
  specimen 
  in 
  Buzzards 
  Baj^, 
  near 
  the 
  station. 
  This 
  

   example, 
  which 
  is 
  now 
  at 
  hand, 
  is 
  9J 
  inches 
  long. 
  

  

  Spheroides 
  maculatus 
  (Bloch 
  & 
  Schneider). 
  Puffer; 
  Swell-toad; 
  

  

  Bloiver. 
  

  

  Two 
  specimens 
  of 
  this 
  puffer 
  taken 
  in 
  traj) 
  nets 
  in 
  Casco 
  Bay, 
  Maine, 
  

   on 
  June 
  26 
  and 
  July 
  3.2, 
  1896, 
  were 
  observed 
  by 
  W. 
  C. 
  Kendall. 
  Cape 
  

   Ann, 
  Massachusetts, 
  is 
  the 
  northern 
  limit 
  of 
  the 
  range 
  of 
  this 
  fish 
  

   heretofore 
  given. 
  § 
  

  

  Alosa 
  sapidissima 
  (Wilson). 
  IShad. 
  

  

  As 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  i^lants 
  of 
  shad 
  fry 
  nmde 
  in 
  the 
  Sacramento 
  and 
  

   Columbia 
  rivers 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  years 
  ago, 
  this 
  fish 
  has 
  become 
  distributed 
  

   along 
  j)ractically 
  the 
  entire 
  west 
  coast 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States. 
  Within 
  

   a 
  few 
  years 
  it 
  has 
  aj^peared 
  in 
  the 
  rivers 
  of 
  J>ritish 
  Colund)ia, 
  where 
  

   it 
  is 
  annually 
  becoming 
  more 
  numerous; 
  in 
  1891 
  the 
  first 
  shad 
  was 
  

  

  * 
  Fishery 
  Industries 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  Section 
  I, 
  p. 
  199. 
  

  

  t 
  Ibid., 
  p. 
  182. 
  

  

  X 
  Proc. 
  Acad. 
  Nat. 
  Sci. 
  Phila., 
  1877. 
  

  

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